Monday, February 18, 2013

More Health Legislation—Toxic TRIS

Toxins in our homes, schools and environment are an ever-increasing health hazard. As the Chicago Tribune reports, American babies are born with "the highest recorded levels of flame retardants among infants in the world."

Bills have been introduced in the Vermont House (# H.241) and Senate (# S.81) to ban toxic flame retardants like TRIS in furniture and baby products.

The Environmental Working Group published a study in 2008 examining the blood of mothers and their toddlers for levels of toxic fire retardants. In 19 out of 20 families, 11 different flame retardant chemicals were present in the children at up to 86% higher concentrations than the mothers. See the report here.

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Welcome! to the Holistic Health Guides. "Complementary" and "alternative", now mainstream terms, place these health care modalities in relation to allopathic medicine rather than standing on their own as they have for millennia.
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